political compass

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Thu Nov 22 08:50:46 PST 2001


ppillai at sprint.ca wrote:
> > Joining in on the pissing contest:
> > Economic Left/Right: -6.50
> > Authoritarian/Libertarian: -8.00
> > I'm rather bothered that a good little anarchist like myself would score
> > so disconcertingly close to a bunch of keynesian liberals and flag-waving
> > populist.

ravi:
> i was dismayed to see myself to the right of most listmembers, given the
> take-no-prisoners, anti-war (or should i say anti-pacifist?),
> anti-relativist, authoritation and absolutist nature of some of the
> debates here... i think i'll blame it on the errors of logic of the
> questionnaire!

The questionnaire assumes strongly constrained spectra, e.g. bourgeois Welfare is supposed to be the extreme Left. As a result, any sort of radicalism will break the scoring mechanism.

-- Gordon



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